Word: flame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure out whether once he has paid for the wedding they will have enough pesos to buy gas to get back to California. Merilee beams at the toothless priest who is gumming the consonants in his chants, and suddenly through an access of amazing grace, she comprehends Maya. Candles flame, incense smells, Girl pants, chickadees are released and a pigcon and the entire entourage totters dizzily down 192 steps without casualty, preceded by the pimp carrying the still-chanting priest...
...sake of chaos, these didactic little vignettes are interspersed with anomalous sight-gags that, like Grand's hobby, are never worth the pains it takes to set them up. Grand hunts ducks, for example, with tank artillery, and-funny, impetuous man!-roasts them where they drop with army flame-throwers...
...wedding itself, Prince Birendra mounted a silver howdah atop an elephant at the Royal Palace, then led a two-mile procession through the capital. At a courtyard in the Palace of the Lion, the prince joined the princess in seven ceremonial circuits around an eternal flame. They then sat down on a simulated bed for a full night of outdoor chanting with Brahmin priests and more Vedic rituals. In one, the couple's feet were washed by every one of the bride's nearly 200 family members. Clean, but cold; the temperature was about...
...doubts, however, that Expo will open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
...spare hair department, or "they are between visits to the hairdresser. Also, they may want them for after the pool or the gym, or just to get a different look." Sometimes the look is a little too different: Nina Blanchard, owner of a model agency, picked up a flame-colored number, faced the mirror and shrieked: "Red Skelton in drag...